Bernie Sanders talks candidly about his past marijuana use
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was campaigning in Michigan on Monday when he suddenly opened up about his own history with marijuana.
One day before Sanders’ surprise win in Michigan’s primary, the candidate dismissed other lawmakers’ comparisons of heroin to cannabis — and he also talked on his limited experience with marijuana.
“I’ve done marijuana twice in my life, when I was very young,” Bernie Sanders said to the crowd’s applause. “And what it did for me, is it made me cough a lot — that was my response, but I gather other people have had different experiences.”
Sanders called heroin “a killer drug” and pointedly took aim at the Controlled Substances Act, which ranks cannabis alongside heroin in terms of the drugs having high potential for abuse, no accepted medical use in the U.S. and a lack of safe use.
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